Depardieu wants to surrender French passport

Associated Press

Gerard Depardieu, one of France's best-known actors, has chastised his country's Socialist prime minister for insulting remarks over his decision to move to tax-friendly Belgium and said in an open letter published Sunday he's turning in his passport.

"We no longer have the same country. I'm a true European, a citizen of the world," Depardieu wrote in the letter printed in the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche. He said his 2012 tax bill - 85 percent of his revenue - is fully paid.

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